1895 
Jimnloo 
(Coahuila) 
Canitas 
(Zacatecas) 
to twig on a largo mesquite and all the time making a loud kind of chipp- 
ing noise with great rapidity* She noise is very similar to that made 
by Basilinaa Leuootis while at rest on some bare twig. 
X«.st night 1 had traps set about a canon in the hills several miles 
north and about 600 feet higher than the village here. Caught what I 
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tock to he another kind of Sltcsay* in the canon among the rocks and just 
this side and therefore below the mouth of the ©anon caught a coarse- 
haired Perognathus among the rooks • 
Dec ether 22 - Set out some traps last night near the river for rats 
and a fm for mice around the cotton fields. Caught 1 Ileotana. tvro 
lleithr odontoaser s . 1 Pero gnat hug, and 1 Mus mnsonlus- t. The Scotomas live 
along the bluff® of the river in holes in the hanks near some of which 
are large quantities of dung* The Reithrodoabaavs live as usual among 
the large grass bordering the cotton fields. The specimen of Mus muaeulus 
ms caught under some largo .grass bordering a cotton field cam© as Reith- 
rodo utcaaars. The Percgaathws ms of the coarse haired specie®, and ms 
taken among some weeds on sandy ground a quite different situation from. 
the one taken among the rooks in -file canon 600 feet above here. 
The weather has been rather cloudhr for several days and today a few 
small drops of rain fell but it 1® new clearing again. This is very un- 
usual for this time of the year, 
December 25 - Lift J imulco last night at 9*15 p.m. and after listen- 
ing to the conductor and news agent spinning yarns until nearly midnight 
X rolled up in a blanket and went to sleep end scarcely woke up until 
the conductor waked ms and said we were near Canitas, X arrived about 
5 a.m. this morning and got permission from the agent to sleep in the 
station until morning* There were 5 or 6 sleepers already sprawled on 
the floor in the room and all or nearly were snoring ag &g T , £5gf ,^^ 1e _ 
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